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  CipherSaber Home Page
A draft paper by Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin and Adi Shamir was released on July 25, 2001 and announces new attacks on the RC4 cipher that is the basis for CipherSaber-1.
CipherSaber parallels the time honored doctrine of jury nullification, where jurors simply refuse to convict persons of violating laws that the jurors determine are unreasonable or unjust.
CipherSaber programs may be subject to export controls in the United States, and many other countries and may be illegal altogether in some countries.
ciphersaber.gurus.com   (3401 words)

  
  CipherSaber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CipherSaber was invented by Arnold Reinhold to keep strong cryptography in the hands of the public.
CipherSaber can be seen as a last-resort fallback system to use if programs like PGP are banned.
Both versions of CipherSaber are vulnerable to dictionary attack if the chosen key (which would normally be a password or passphrase) does not have sufficient entropy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CipherSaber   (1049 words)

  
 Ciphersaber - hints and tips
Ciphersaber (v1) is a simple program based on turning a shared secret pass phrase - longer and harder to guess than a password - into a key for the ARCFOUR algorithm.
The original author of CipherSaber recommended that the length of the passphrase should not exceed 54 letters, to ensure it gets well-mixed with the ten bytes of the initialization vector.
The whole point of Ciphersaber is that it's a home-build program, using an algorithm that could fit as the slogan on a coffee mug, so I'm not going to supply source - if you have to, I'm sure Google will turn up an ARCFOUR implementation in your chosen language, but that spoils the fun.
www.ravnaandtines.com /ciphersaber.html   (1800 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ciphersaber was developed as a strong cryptosystem that is difficult to suppress.
Ciphersaber File Format Plaintext0n-1 IVCiphertext0910n+9 For decryption, the 10 byte IV is read from the front of the ciphertext file and appended to the user’s passphrase.
As Reinhold showed in his Cryptanalysis of Ciphersaber [Rei98], the randomness of an IV is limited by the seed source and by the size of the PRNG state.
www.cs.ucsb.edu /~kirbysdl/cs178-2002/paper.doc   (5179 words)

  
 CipherSaber
CipherSaber is a symmetric encryption system based on RC4 that is simple enough that novice programmers can memorize the algorithm and implement it from scratch, yet supposedly strong.
To address this, the CipherSaber designer has invented his own variant on RC4 in which the RC4 key setup loop is repeated multiple times (20 is recommended).
CipherSaber is strong enough to make its political point effectively.
www.piracyguild.com /Cryptographic-Software/CipherSaber.php   (382 words)

  
 CIPHERSABER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CipherSaber은 강한RC4에 기초를 두는, 그러나 충분히 간단한 상칭적인 부호 매김 체계 이다 초심자 프로그래머가 찰상에서 그것을 실행할 수 있는.
CipherSaber안에 각 메시지는 무작위 10개의 바이트 초기 설정 벡터 으로 시작된다.
큰 수 메세지가CipherSaber동일한 열쇠에 보내면RC4에 관계있는 중요한 공격은CipherSaber원래 체계를 비난받기 쉬웠던 만들었다.
www.faktoko.com /wiki/ko/ci/CipherSaber.htm   (77 words)

  
 CipherSaber - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CipherSaber is a symmetric encryption system based on RC4 that is strong, yet simple enough that novice programmers can implement it from scratch.
In CipherSaber each message begins with a random ten byte initialization vector (IV).
The IV is needed because RC4 is a stream cipher.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/CipherSaber   (156 words)

  
 CipherSaber FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CipherSaber is small enough to implement on just about any computer that can be programmed, including the Palm Pilot, HP palm tops, Windows CE hand helds, Apple's late, lamented Newton, Java-based network computers, older personal computers, like the Apple II or Commodore 64, microcontrollers like BasicStamp and even legacy mainframes and minis.
CipherSaber transforms cryptography from an obscure and difficult technology into a basic skill of citizenship.
This page may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/) The requirement that the author's name appear on the outer surface of any book containing this material is hereby waved.
ciphersaber.gurus.com /faq.html   (3531 words)

  
 Cryptanalysis of CipherSaber-1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CipherSaber 1 is a way of using Ron Rivest's RC4 cipher as a practical symmetric key cryptosystem.
CipherSaber addresses the requirement that the same key never be used twice by appending a ten byte quantity, called the initialization vector (IV), to the users key.
It might be better for each user to determine the largest value of N that is tollerable on their computer and to agree to use the smaller of the two acceptable N values when communicating with another CipherSaber user.
ciphersaber.gurus.com /cryptanalysis.html   (2552 words)

  
 Ciphersaber Memorable Test Vectors
The default iv length is 10 (for compatibility with other ciphersaber programs).
If the IV given is shorter than the IV length (specified or default) then the missing characters of IV are considered to be ascii(0).
This behavior may or may not match other ciphersaber implementations.
www.cypherspace.org /adam/csvec   (1200 words)

  
 Salt (cryptography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In some protocols, the salt is transmitted as cleartext with the encrypted data, sometimes along with the number of iterations used in generating the key (for key strengthening).
Cryptographic protocols which use salts include SSL and Ciphersaber.
Early Unix systems used a 12-bit salt, but modern implementations use larger values.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salt_(cryptography)   (557 words)

  
 CipherSaber - Slider
While CipherSaber protects against unsophisticated attacker, its security from both theoretical and practical point of view is not satisfactory.
CipherSaber is supposed to be used as a complete cryptographic protocol, as otherwise there would be little point in implementing the cipher on your own.
RC-4 is not the strongest cipher, as for 2005 many of its weaknesses are known, and the CipherSaber is not using it in an optimal way, in particular:
enc.slider.com /Enc/Ciphersaber   (458 words)

  
 Crypt::CipherSaber - Perl module implementing CipherSaber encryption.
The Crypt::CipherSaber module implements CipherSaber encryption, described at http://ciphersaber.gurus.com.
It is simple, fairly speedy, and relatively secure algorithm based on RC4.
The decrypted message may also contain unprintable characters, as the CipherSaber encryption scheme can handle binary files with fair ease.
perl.enstimac.fr /perl5.6.1/site_perl/5.6.1/Crypt/CipherSaber.html   (564 words)

  
 Encryption using the RC4 technique
Note that in CipherSaber the RC4 key array consists of the user's CipherSaber key followed by the 10 byte initialization vector.
This IV is the first 10 bytes of the file to be decoded, or your randomly generated IV to be put to the new encoded file.
For instance; if you were to use the disk serial number and the current date as the 'randomizer', then every file you encoded on a particular date, would have the same IV.
www.frontiernet.net /~fys/cypher.htm   (875 words)

  
 aardwulf.com : AardSaber | Javascript CipherSaber for text based encryption   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The encryption algorithm used on this page is based on the CipherSaber algorithm from ciphersaber.gurus.com.
Feel confident about using this version of CipherSaber, because, although you are using your web browser, the Javascript is entirely Client Side, which means that no data that you put into this web page will EVER be sent to the server.
However, CipherSaber with an N of 20 or greater is not affected by the attacks.
www.aardwulf.com /cipher/aardSaber.asp   (534 words)

  
 RC4.java - Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This is found in the "CipherSaber" directory in the "Examples" directory.
It's a modified version of AnotherExample.java to be compatible with CipherSaber.
One of the test files on the CipherSaber homepage is included for you to verify it's working if you choose.
insanityflows.net /archive/index.php?title=RC4.java   (487 words)

  
 CipherSaber - help spread strong crypto!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Of course, the idea to collect CipherSaber implementations and see whether it is possible to collect a couple of hundred implementations of this useful little crypto program - so write your CipherSaber implementation and submit it to the
The second one I hope will be even more important, because it's a list of CipherSaber algorithm descriptions in natural languages, which hopefully serves to spread the algorithm even to the backwoods of the Amazonas ;-), and furthermore to ridicule anti-crypto measures all over the world, of course.
Yes, symmetric key algorithms have their problems, but for personal use (protect yourself against snooping spooks) that's no problem; for communication use, something like a book-based key exchange would be good enough for most people.
www.advogato.org /article/79.html   (920 words)

  
 Diceware Passphrase FAQ
CipherSaber is a strong encryption method so simple that you can write the program yourself if you have elementary programming skills -- even if it is only a knowledge of Basic.
CipherSaber is intended to demonstrate that banning strong cryptography is futile, but the program is also useful and a lot of fun to make.
CipherSaber can use Diceware passphrases directly as a key.
www.cat.pdx.edu /~rustvold/dicewarefaq.html   (7294 words)

  
 Code.box.sk
For this coding challenge, you are to implement your own CipherSaber.
The algorithm that is used, RC4, is quite simple and is found on that page's FAQ section as well as pseudo code found below.
You can test your implementation using the encrypted files from the ciphersaber homepage, additionally, I'll also provide a couple of encrypted test messages and files for fun.
code.box.sk /newsread.php?newsid=937   (474 words)

  
 RC4.py - Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This is basically a simple command-line file encryption utility.
It's a modified version of AnotherExample.py to be compatible with CipherSaber.
The actual implementation classes (RC4.py, RC4_Basic.py) are released under the LGPL license.
insanityflows.net /archive/index.php?title=RC4.py   (259 words)

  
 CIPHERSABER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CipherSaber ist ein symmetrisches Verschlüsselungsystem, das auf RC4 basiert, das stark ist, dennoch, das genug einfach, dem Anfängerprogrammierer es vom Kratzer einführen können.
Dieser IV wird zum CipherSaber Schlüssel hinzugefügt, um den Eingang zum Schlüsseleinstellung RC4 Algorithmus zu bilden.
In Verbindung stehende Schlüsselangriffe auf RC4 haben das ursprüngliche CipherSaber System verletzbar gemacht, wenn große Anzeigen der Zahl mit dem gleichen CipherSaber Schlüssel gesendet werden.
www.faktedon.com /wiki/de/ci/CipherSaber.htm   (116 words)

  
 sci.crypt: Two factor autentication on Ciphersaber without loosing compatibility
Two factor autentication on Ciphersaber without loosing compatibility
The problem is that a generic Ciphersaber prepend the Initialization
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www.derkeiler.com /Newsgroups/sci.crypt/2005-05/0559.html   (381 words)

  
 Re: Wassenaar vs. CipherSaber
The > most important part of this program is the documentation, indeed the > program could be left out, and the documentation would serve the same > purpose.
Perhaps PGP can be, but to me it always looked heavy and difficult to grasp.
It is a separate question as to why PGP is not simply integrated properly into every copy of Pine and every copy of, what are the W9* and Mac equivalents?
www.mail-archive.com /cryptography@c2.net/msg00095.html   (131 words)

  
 sci.crypt: Re: Some application, with sources
At least see it like a tribute to a little tool that I liked very much
that is CipherSaber, since the application can be used in strictly
CipherSaber compatible mode, to encrypt and decrypt file from a GUI
www.derkeiler.com /Newsgroups/sci.crypt/2005-07/0503.html   (398 words)

  
 Ubik CipherSaber - "Safe when taken as directed" (!TM)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ubik Ciphersaber - "Safe when taken as directed"
Ubik Cipher Saber is a javascript implementation of ciphersaber 2 written and peer-reviewed by Zzzen, Xnormal, and the rest of the Johnny Random Seed crew.
It is free, open source, as-is and don't come crying to me yadadayada.
zzzen.com /ubik.html   (234 words)

  
 [No title]
It is simple, fairly speedy, and relatively secure algorithm based on RC4.
This returns a string containing the decrypted message.
The decrypted message may also contain unprintable characters, as the CipherSaber encryption scheme can handle binary files with fair ease.
www.pcnw.org /dada/DADA/perllib/Crypt/CipherSaber.pm   (889 words)

  
 CipherSaber / サイファセイバー
このZipファイルをWinZipで展開すると、 44バイトのファイル simple.cs が入手できます。 これをパスワード "CipherSaber" (引用符は含まない)で復号化すると、 Write your own encryption program.
CipherSaber Home Page - CipherSaberの作者 Arnold G. Reinhold によるページです。必ずお読み下さい。
CipherSaber, CS1, CS2, and CipherKnight are trademarks of Arnold G. Reinhold.
www.hyuki.com /cs   (177 words)

  
 Weblog Item   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This page predates recent events, but now that Congress seems to be on the verge of outlawing strong encryption without backdoors, it might be worth another look.
Based on RC4, the CipherSaber algorithm is designed to be so simple to implement that any programmer can do so with minimal instructions.
Banning this will basically require rounding up software developers and shooting them.
www.larkfarm.com /weblog_item.asp?LogID=2092   (131 words)

  
 Re: The CipherSaber Manifesto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Messaging >> takes place by attaching binary files to e-mail.
Because CipherSaber >> uses a stream cipher, an initialization vector must be used to prevent >> the same cipher key from being used twice.
In encrypted CipherSaber-1 >> files, a ten byte initialization vector precedes the coded data.
cypherpunks.venona.com /date/1997/09/msg01506.html   (263 words)

  
 [five-by-five.se: Software; AROS]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
I wrote this mainly to learn how to work the GNU regex library.
An i386-AROS implementation of the CipherSaber (RC4) encryption algorithm; optionally hashes passphrase/IV using SHA-512.
Your browser doesn't support Javascript, or you don't have it turned on.
www.five-by-five.se /v2/software   (206 words)

  
 Ciphersaber Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Description: Fight the crypto ban by learning how to write your own strong encryption program.
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www.onlinesecuritysite.com /company/ciphersaber-gurus-com.html   (70 words)

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